Patch Notes 2026-09-12
- Battleground Rewards are doubled for the first two weeks after this update!
- 3 new Costume Boxes are now in rotation!
- New Halloween 2026 Box (the Halloween box will not be removed in the next rotation but will remain available leading up to Halloween).
- The following modes are now available for rotation: Death Match, Stone Control, Conquest, Krieger Von Midgard, Double Inferno, Rush, Slay the King, Tierra Gorge, and Eye of Storm.
- New BG mode: Slay the King!
- This mode operates like Death Match except a player on each team is randomly chosen as the King and is given substantial buffs. Kill the opposing team's King to score a point! First to 3 points wins.
- The buffs the King receives are: 2x HP, +50 all stats, -50% VCT, -30% ACD.
- Whoever kills the King gets an additional 1 Bravery Coin.
- Added support for our custom castle Sotanaht in Conquest!
- Party Queue re-enabled with additional changes:
- Parties must now join in pairs - a party can only join if another party is available to be placed on the other team.
- If the round is about to start and you're still waiting for another party to join, you will be automatically queued solo to avoid late penalties.
- Refreshed rewards - added new gears (Assaulter Plate, Assassin Robe, Medic's Robe, Elite Shooter Suit), Blacksmith Blessing, and costumes!
- GSB Enhancement Essence price reduced from 5 to 2 Bravery Coins.
- Added BG Rankings NPC to
prontera,148,193. - 2 clowns per team limit and clown bonus is removed.
- Minimum badges for a player on a losing team is now 2.
- Wait time before KvM starts reduced from 60s to 30s.
- Added a trap limit of 15 per player to all BG maps.
- Consolation Prize: all queued players get 10 Bravery Coins if the mode fails to start.
- The cells around the Battle Therapist are now unwalkable to facilitate easier access to the NPC.
- Damaging barricades in Conquest should no longer be possible as long as a previous objective still exists.
- Pre-Trans WoE Strip changes (duration reduced to 20 seconds) now apply in Battlegrounds.
- Stone Control catch-up speed: carrier speed value drops 10 per 5 points behind, floor 100 (150 is unbuffed walking, ~110 is Agi Up).
- Rewrote
@bginfoto be more useful to our implementation. - Auto-rejoin:
@bgautotoggles a per-character flag that automatically rejoins the next round of BG with the same eligibility checks as@joinbg. - Added fixpos to PR_GLORIA.
- Icicle Spear description corrected to Lord Knight.
- Stuns from Deep-Earth Stalactite "Cave-in" (Earth Spike animation) attack are now reduced in duration by VIT.
- Reduced the melee attack range of Jotunn to 2 (from 3).
- Jotunn now has a 1s cast bar before using Permafrost Diver during the final two phases.
- Dying to Permafrost no longer applies Hell's Power.
Pre-Trans WoE
- Fixed being able to snap between traps in pre-trans WoE.
- Chemical Protection status' from a Creator's FCP skill are stripped upon entering a pre-trans castle. CP status' from an Alchemist are not stripped upon entering a pre-trans castle.
- Removed Chemical Protection's effect on the success rate of Rogue Strip in pre-trans WoE.
- In Pre-Trans WoE/trap limit maps: Your oldest trap is now removed so a new one can be placed when your limit is reached (instead of not allowing you to place a new trap).
- Butterfly Wing should now be again tracking properly in WoE stats.
- Whitelisted 22 additional cards for Pre-Trans WoE: Grizzly Card (4162), Nightmare Terror Card (4166), Dark Frame Card (4170), Demon Pungus Card (4173), Disguise Card (4181), Wraith Dead Card (4189), Rybio Card (4194), Majoruros Card (4201), Brilight Card (4213), Sasquatch Card (4216), Skeleton Prisoner Card (4222), Giant Spider Card (4270), Karakasa Card (4286), Kraben Card (4295), Creamy Fear Card (4298), Chimera Card (4300), Killer Mantis Card (4301), Pest Card (4315), Venomous Card (4333), Porcellio Card (4337), Red Novus Card (4383), Skogul Card (4404).
Alchemist
- NEW SKILL - Remote Detonator: Use the skill to detonate all marine spheres at once.
- NEW SKILL - Herbicide: Use the skill to remove a marine sphere without exploding it.
- MODIFIED - Summon Marine Sphere: No longer uses plant bottle. Each VIT of the alchemist increases sphere HP by 5.
- MODIFIED - Summon Flora: No longer uses plant bottle. If a plant bottle is carried, it is consumed to summon a 2nd plant of the same type when using the skill. Plant stats now scale with alchemist stats. Summoned plants get STR×2 ATK, AGI-based ASPD, +10 HP and DEF/10 per VIT, MDEF/10 and +INT per INT at summon time.
- Plant Bottle: Now an Alchemist-only usable item that can be used to summon one extra Geographer (60s cooldown).
- Auto attacks from the master Alchemist no longer "arm" Marine Spheres - they only move the sphere.
- Both new skills are quest skills learned from Field Botanist Ilse in the Al De Baran Alchemist Guild.
- Friendly reminder that you can get here using the Warper -> Special Areas -> Alchemist Guild.